Guinea’s ruling junta has agreed to return power to civilians after two years, giving up under threat of imminent sanctions to rule the country for three years, its leader Mamadi Doumbouya and an Economic Community of States document said. of West Africa. But Mamadi Doumbouya then clarified that this calendar takes effect from January 1, 2023, which is denounced by the Forces vives de la nation and a large majority of the political class.
With our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah
At the end of a five-day working mission in Conakry, technicians from ECOWAS and its mediator Thomas Bony Yayi appointed by the regional body found an agreement with the Guinean authorities on a timetable of 24 months for a return to constitutional order.
” Yes, 24 months of course from the swearing in of the president of the transition, because we could not consider 13 months as a bonus. It would be surprising if the heads of state of ECOWAS consider 13 months as a bonus “, reacts Abdoul Sako, head of the Social Forces of Guinea.
Abdoul Sako asks the institution to react to the current situation: “ ECOWAS must not joke with the times because the people of Guinea are today subject to a form of bad governance, to a kind of growing impoverishment “.
For Diabaty Doré, the president of the Rally for the Republic, the contradictions are still too numerous: “ I’m a bit confused in my head about the final communiqué and what was said by the president of the junta, Colonel Doumbouya. He says that the 24 months will start from January 1 (2023) while the final communiqué of the ECOWAS experts says that it is up to the Heads of State of the ECOWAS member countries who will meet in the month of December and tell us when it will start. »
Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya took power in September 2021 and was sworn in a month after the putsch.